My old faves Frankenberry and Count Chocula might be making a huge comeback all across North America...? Such news are all I need to verse nostalgic over those things that I hold dear to my heart whenever I think back to my childhood...

And there is no better reason than this to look back at them cereal creatures that I used to have as tablemates on the old breakfasts between ages five and twelve, approximately...!

Boo!

Up against the five freaks from General Mills,

the Kelloggs Crew never stood a chance:

I mean, come on now -

a tiger, a toucan, a rabbit, three dwarves and some other bird

against five monsters (or parodies of monsters, really)

THE OUTCOME WAS OBVIOUS,

EVEN TO LITTLE LUMINOUS ME!

(especially to Little Luminous Me... !)

Which one of those sorry Kelloggs guys

was caught with the dead-end job of promoting

Cocoa Puffs anyway... hmm?

The last one on the right end, surely...

Up against this Count, he didn't stand a chance!

Now THIS is the Count I remember!

I do NOT remember getting my ''bath time fun kit', however...?

What gives...?!? (And was it not ''batty time'' in truth?)

Bela Lugois has seen more embarrassing moments than this...

(Right, Abbott & Costello?)

Always wondered which Count was of true blood though...!

I guess we will never know...

Chocula vs Duckula vs Dracula...

with those two old coots in the middle as referees!

What a brawl-for-not-much-at-all that would be!

The years have not been so good for that cooky old Count, though:

I profoundly hate the new look he has, these days...

I guess that, just like Wolverine,

they had a problem with the hairdo...

Now this makes me think we forgot a Count back there:

Count Dooku!

Oh well...

Dooku doesn't count...

;-)

art by JH Clark IV

art by Jeremy Scott

I just remembered that I was extremely pale

back in those days when I had the habit

of wolfing down a bowl of this stuff for breakfast -

with some milk and nothing else!

I wasn't as pale as that Twilight dude, mind you;

but the remembrance triggered the need

to add this to the mix here:

This ongoing controversy

is a raging debate amongst fanboys - and fangirrrls-

(fangboys and fangirls?) all across the board, after all...

And it triggers yet another form of acute nostalgia

for an (allegedly) fanged one...

Now surely Elvira grew up on Chocula, too;

and she must have had a huge crush on him

- especially if he ever turns in live action

like this:

art by... ?!?

art by Mike Burns

The Brute had a huge sugar rush one time -

accounts for his momentary dyslexia

(or simple inability to spell here...?)

A bad example for the kids, all around...

The DCU has its ''top three''

(sometimes sacrilegiously referred to as a ''trinity'' - ha!)

Marvel swears only by Spidey, Wolvie and... ah... Deadpool now?

And General Mills always went with these top three best-sellers as well -

unceremoniously ditching the two fruity ones, Brute and Mummy, in the process!

I guess that should make Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy my true favorites then:

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Born in the Age of Aquarius, destined to seek out truths in many an art form, trained as a historian and a journalist but truly a prose-lover... Luciano is out to dispel any clichés and reinvent them all both to the tune of a little something called the truth as also to his own image - being old-fashioned, he does not mind that distinction one infinitesimal tiny bit at all...! "There are two ways to spread the light; be the candle... or the mirror that reflects It." I have chosen to be the latter... okay? ~*~
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